Eddie Hearn says Anthony Joshua will fight in May or June and will start his training camp in January. By then, the former two-time heavyweight champion (28-4, 25 KO) will have had four months off to recover from his fifth-round knockout loss to IBF champion Daniel Dubois on September 21.
Joshua is looking forward to the May/June bout
Hearn reported that Joshua, 35, will fight twice in 2025, which he hopes will be against Tyson Fury in two bouts. If not him, a rematch with Dubois (22-2, 21 KOs). AJ still wants to avenge his loss, but first on the agenda is Fury if he doesn't retire.
Understandably, Hearn is doing everything he can to hurry up and get the Joshua vs. Fury because both fighters are getting older and can no longer be relied upon to defeat level competition. If Hearn waited, both men would continue to get beaten by the younger or even the older.
Although they can still defeat many top 15 players, there are more than a handful of heavyweights in the division who have an excellent chance of defeating them.
Hearn says Joshua Fury and Chris Eubank Jr v Conor Penn are the two biggest fights in British boxing. He could be right. Fans want to watch both competitions, even if the rest of the world doesn't.
“In May or June. He's not in full training yet. Maybe he'll be ready to resume training in January,” Eddie Hearn said EFL TV On when Anthony Joshua will fight next. “Right now, you have the Dubois fight (vs. Joseph Parker) on February 22, and you have to see what Fury wants to do.
“We're not in a terrible rush. AJ will fight twice in 2025. Once in the summer and once in the winter. If we can't get Dubois to fight and if Fury doesn't want to fight, then you have to make a decision to fight someone, or do you wait for those fights?”
“I can't speak for AJ, because he's ready to fight for him, but what I know is that the focus is on Daniel Dubois or Tyson Fury. Naturally, he (Joshua) did it all. If he mentioned Fury on his resume, he would corner everyone Almost in his time.
AJ vs. Fury in 2025?
Fury has not yet said whether he will fight Joshua. He was very upset after losing a 12-round unanimous decision to unified heavyweight champion Oleksandr Usyk in a rematch on December 21 in Riyadh. He believed he had won the fight by three rounds and appeared bitter in the post-fight press conference, where he complained about his second defeat to Usyk.
Although Fury is upset, the money he could get for the fight against Joshua will lure him back into the ring. He won't be mad for long when Turki Al Sheikh waves $100 million under his nose in an AJ match.
“He (Fury) is a tough fight, it's a 50-50 fight, but run it twice and see where we are at the end. The two biggest fights in British boxing, Eubank-Benn and Fury-AJ, are by a mile. Nothing even comes close,” Hearn said. .
